Hillary Leftwich - Western Illinois University

College of Arts and Sciences

Spring 2020 Fiction Case Writer: Hillary Leftwich

Hillary Leftwich is the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock featured in Entropy’s Best Fiction list of 2019. She is the poetry and prose editor for Heavy Feather Review and runs At the Inkwell Denver, a monthly reading series. Currently, she freelances as a writer, editor, and writing workshop instructor. Her writing can be found or is forthcoming in print and online in The Rumpus, Entropy, The Missouri Review, Hobart, Smokelong Quarterly, and others. She will be attending The Kenyon Review’s Writers Workshop for nonfiction in the summer of 2020. She received her MFA from the Mile High MFA at Regis University in Denver where she lives with her partner, her son, and their cat, Larry.